IDENTIFIERS
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id:	200549
accession number:	M/P.54-1913

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 10 February 2015
updated:	Wednesday 14 March 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Verge silver watch in skull-shaped case.

MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Champenois A Paris'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved oval table and foot. Steel balance. Set up endless screw with silver dial over brass worm wheel, having radial Arabic numbers 1 to 6. Blued steel worm brackets with trellis feet and index. Rectangular fusee iron post, lyre shape on end. Blued steel case bolt with spring having vertical decorative foot. Rectangular potance with engraved side riveted to top plate. Counter potance rectangular with foot screwed to top plate. Pillar plate with four turned baluster pillars. Dial side engraved around dial. Split gut fusee, endless screw set-up on back plate, barrel with two lips at end. Verge escapement. Train, three pinions, planted anti-clockwise.

DIAL: White enamel in sink in gold plate with counter enamel. Radial Roman chapters with half-hour lines. Ladders quarters ring. Small central decoration around thin central gold ring.

HAND: Blued steel hour hand, sword shaped.

CASE: Silver in the form of a skull. Lower jaw opening to reveal dial, plain inside. Inside body (cranium) has hammer marks. Bow ring double where soldered to cranium. No marks.
title:	watch

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before Frank Gray Smart, Bredbury, Tunbridge Wells


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: F.G. Smart Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/200549


SUBJECTS
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skull
skull



CATEGORIES
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category: watches

DATING
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creation date:	1670 - 1670
creation date earliest:	1670
creation date latest:	1670
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Champenois, Raymond


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Tempus, The Art of Time
title:	Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
CITATIONS
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Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World
Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français
Tempus, The Art of Time
Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
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